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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70444#Comment_70444Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:07:50 -0500warrenellis
Saturday Night Open Mic: tell me what you want to be doing, or where you want to be, this time next year. Or just vent, scream, show people your arse or talk dirty to me, it's Saturday night, do what you like... ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70446#Comment_70446Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:14:43 -0500FauxhammerI canceled my trip out of worry, and that was stupid. I guess I'm still scabby and raw over the missus getting sick.

So much for the restorative power of travel, booze, and bright, blinky lights. At least I'm not back to my shithole job until Thusday. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70447#Comment_70447Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:22:44 -0500foxtongueSaturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70448#Comment_70448
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70448#Comment_70448Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:22:58 -0500buzzorhowlThe only other thing on my mind is this: I've become very enamored of posting on twitter. At first, I was incredibly skeptical of the entire thing, but I've come to learn that my mind actually spits out twitter-appropriate thoughts on a very frequent basis. So yeah, I've been on there a week or so and posted about 200 times. But this is making me worry--does everyone following me secretly hate me? I mean, I'm doing what I want to be doing with the service, and it really shouldn't matter if no one follows me on there, right? But I still worry.

Course, after Matt Fraction posted something like 50 times in an hour last night, I felt a bit better. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70449#Comment_70449Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:24:51 -0500sterlingspiderActually that's not entirely true, I'm frantically sewing the last few things I need to sew, praying that my hedgehogs and tarantulas don't spontaneously combust or have a gang fight set to the West Side Story soundtrack while in other peoples care, and obsessively going over the list of stuff that needs to be packed to make sure I didn't miss anything.

I am hungry, tired, and frazzled; but in 36 hours I expect to be wearing funny clothing, stinking of campfire, and oozing with metabolized home-brewed mead from every pore so I think it'll be OK.

I fully expect to be doing the same exact thing one year from today and I wouldn't have it any other way.

If anyone wants to see my arse they'll just have to come to Pennsic too I guess. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70450#Comment_70450Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:27:55 -0500MithrasAngelI want to find a different job (working for the government is starting to suck).I want to move to Phoenix.I want to get much better at playing electric guitar (on this latter, the tutorial programs I've tried to use haven't been very effective... I'm considering paying for lessons).

More immediately, I'm trying to decide what, if anything, I want to eat. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70452#Comment_70452Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:28:34 -0500FireThiefI know someone who writes for a review site, and this person is pretty annoying now as they think they're the hottest pot of shit around. Constantly talking about what "Joe Comic Writer/Illustrator" said. Also, this person will not hesitate to step in front of you in a conversation if someone prominent in comics steps up. Shit like that pisses me off.

Went to an art show last night. Want my friend to stop fucking around and illustrate a script. Sometimes I want to break light bulbs just to hear the pop-tinkle. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70456#Comment_70456Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:34:39 -0500El3mo
Way to many people. Didn't get to see any panels.Got to buy a book from Wil Weaton, who is a good guy.Missed seeing Kim Evey and the Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show people.

Lots of Light & Sculpture ideas came together for me this week.Started new project and very excited with it.

Tonight is good people, good food and pool/hotub.

I think, yes, definitely: WINNING!

See, I'm almost smiling. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70458#Comment_70458Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:40:05 -0500Andre NavarroSaturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70459#Comment_70459
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70459#Comment_70459Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:40:24 -0500struthersneilIt's a frightening idea that in one year's time I'll be in much the same place I am now, doing much the same thing. Maybe with some savings--having some money in the bank would be nice. This month-to-month survival feels like stagnation, sometimes. But fuck that; you have to get on with it and get as much as possible out of it. When it comes to enjoying life, getting as much as I can out of it, I do alright. I could do better but I do alright. I share this life with a beautiful and tolerant girl and things are slowly coming together for us.

I will hold back on the arse picture for now as I fear it might be a bit of a turn-off. Nobody needs to see that. I haven't seen it in years. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70460#Comment_70460Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:48:29 -0500gdwesselI am in the midst of my big plan to be at Chicago 2009 tho with items to peddle, pitch, shill and sell. Oh, yes.

Too much else going on since last I checked in, including the apparent suicide of someone here in town known to a few other Whitechapellers. Which is kinda weird.

And I'll have a pony. But that's just to spite all those kids who want ponies: I, myself, do not actually want one. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70466#Comment_70466Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:00:30 -0500tedcrolandI'm worried about a friend. This friend tends to be very hard on them self, and recent events have made them sink. I really want to help this person--but I'm running out of ways how. I'm not about to walk away...I really just want them to feel better. I'm at a point where I'm not sure how.

Where I want to be...by this time next year, my ideal place would be living on my own in San Francisco, mostly done with my BA, looking for graduate programs. I'd have a steady job and able to support myself. Fucking pipe dream, maybe...I don't know how much I believe in it right now. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70468#Comment_70468Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:05:15 -0500FireThiefSaturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70470#Comment_70470
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70470#Comment_70470Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:08:46 -0500BrianMowreyThat's appropriate coincidence, Mr. Warren, for I just finally the first time ever watched Network last night; and when it was over, stunned, transformed, my overriding thought was, "Shit This is the perfect science fiction movie".

Which is brilliant, since there's no science fiction in it. Which just reveals how peripheral the idea of fictional science is to science fiction. Network lifts away all the artifacts and living manifestations of universal human meaning so subtly over its course -- lures us along with the promise of clarity and reaffirmation, but leaves us staring down the faceless blank blaring madness of The New Society with absolutely no words of protest left in our throats -- brings us, finally, teetering on the brink of philosophical apocalypse, casually shoves us over -- And! -- We fall limply back into the real word, instantly comforted by the familiar signpost of a children's cereal commercial, shaking off the infinite black fear of a moment prior like an already-forgotten dream, and yet left aware, somewhere underneath, that the dark and cold horrible place we just returned from was Reality, and the world we're so grateful to find back under our feet is the illusion.

The best science fiction isn't about science. The best science fiction isn't fiction.

Anyways, my thoughts turned to you, Warren, because that basically summed up for me the monumental gravitational attraction of Doktor Sleepless, which is my favorite thing you're producing right now. Is Network an American anomaly amongst your strange quaint British artistic influences? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70473#Comment_70473Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:10:41 -0500mr_josephusBest case scenario? In a couple of years I and my friends will be tycoons!

I wanted to be Warren Ellis when I grew up. You need to want to be you when you grow up. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70478#Comment_70478Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:21:56 -0500ulysses_mcgheeMy name is G0RY MUL3WH1P

im starving. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70485#Comment_70485Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:36:35 -0500V
I'm living in the city I want to live in, and I'm involved with the research group I want to be involved with.I'm not rich, but I'm not poor, and I get to do exactly the work I want.

I guess in a year's time I'd like to still be alive, living in this city, doing this work, and taking photos.I'd like to have made enough progress to be putting early prototypes into the hands of musicians, but I don't want to be done my PhD project because I'm making enough changes that such early completion does not seem a good sign to me.

I'm a little intimidated by some of the other work coming out of my lab, but I'm also very delighted that that is the case. Lots to learn, and lots of interesting people to learn from.

I want to not only grow my ideas, but actually learn how to prepare and feed them to people outside my area.(Ideas are not so powerful when you don't know how to tell anyone about them, and the pool of people doing obscure weirdo music performance research with neural networks is awfully small.) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70486#Comment_70486Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:37:04 -0500Bombus Hortorus1) it's hard to type, read or do anything useful with a week old baby. 2) I am british and my natural habitat is cold and wet. heat turns my brain bad. 3) Dust on a DSLR sensor makes baby jesus cry4) There's a website with Southampton shipping movements on it so I now know how to stalk ocean liners. Even though they all now look like poncy floating hotels, not elegant like the QE2.

This time next year I want to be richer, thinner, prettier, cleverer and for my eldest daughter to stop behaving like a schizophrenic doberman with its tail set on fire every time I ask her to do something reasonable like 'tidy up please'. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70488#Comment_70488Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:39:59 -0500Greg SBB!Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70489#Comment_70489
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70489#Comment_70489Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:41:34 -0500syringavulgarisI'm going down now to talk ways'n'means with Best Friend who is now New Roommate, where we shall consume a nice dry Reisling and a jerk-marinated pork loin I just made, and sit out on her porch on this beautiful evening and watch the drug dealers go by. UPWARDLY MOBILE I AM NOT. But it's all grist to the life mill, no?

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70493#Comment_70493Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:49:44 -0500chris gThis time next year? hmm, fuck. Well I still want to have a dayjob so I can have money, and hopefully take comicking more seriously by then and have some out for the world to see.

Question: I really think this one girl is AWESOME, but she might be a hardcore Jehovas Witness. Not that I'm against that, but i don't really believe in anything, maybe she could teach me a thing or two. Should I still ask her for coffee? CAN'T HURT!

Vent: Fuuuck, I hate the loser I work with. It's sooo sad, he's like 37 or something, and he just burps all day since there's no ladies around. It must make him feel soooo macho. Obviously no one played with him when he was little...or as a grown up.

I try to put a little fear in him by flashing the lead pipe under my desk.

Oh, and some internet stranger said "i'd like to see you draw Green Arrow fighting Hawkeye"....so I fucking did. I don't regret it. HA!

It's too hot here, far too hot, which is an odd thing to say in Scotland. I'm off to drink more Rose. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70502#Comment_70502Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:23:01 -0500outlawpoetIf we go back to basic research, I will get even more isolated and drowned in my work. It will be fun.

Today is new computer day at work. Every 18 months or so I get another one to keep my work fast and productive. God, this new one cuts the batch tests from 50 to 30 minutes. I'm in love.

I guess I should publish some of my non-AI work in the next year, like people have been telling me to. I joined the lifeboat foundation out of duty, but I'm not sure what to do with it. Still holding off deleting the work on the comic with Emily, it looks really good, another 5 pages this week.

Somalians fed me goats today. Restaurants have always struck me as something of a reverse religious experience. You sit on your high chair, and grumble your almighty wishes, "sacrifice unto me your finest calf, drowned in honey and milk" you might say, and the waitstaff sashay around in supplication, asking if you are happy, are you pleased with their service, what can they do for you. You devour their offerings, and pronounce your feelings on their performance. And then you pay the bill, cash or credit, at that point things are a bit domestic, I admit. But it's quite odd, for most of it. If you think about it too much. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70504#Comment_70504Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:26:38 -0500hankToday, I carried a lot of underflooring and laid a floor in our new lodge space. I exceeded my usual abilities as a carpenter. Go me. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70506#Comment_70506Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:29:21 -0500Jon WakeRight now I'm in triage life mode. Must keep the power on, get a job, and find a new place to live all in ten days.

The next Open Mic Entry from me may be from a stolen computer behind a dumpster. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70507#Comment_70507Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:30:30 -0500Asphyxiautomatoni would like, in a year, to have poetry published, to have the novel written, and to be able to keep a coherent thought.

Shakespeare in the Park tomorrow, with a couple of friends. That should be fun, especially since I haven't seen these friends in quite awhile.

All in all, not a bad Saturday. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70512#Comment_70512Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:38:55 -0500waniyetuwi
Watching candles burn down to the appropriate size to build an altar for one of my art pieces.Cleaning my house while drinking.Looking up plane tickets to London for the end of Sept.Reworking layouts for the magazine. ( Script and size glitches)Making a list of comics for my mom to include in the young adult and adult section of the library.Later on I'll be doing some editing. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70513#Comment_70513Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:40:43 -0500razrangelThis week instead of feeling evasive about doing more job hunting I hit a point where I feel utterly numb. Which is much worse. I'm not applying, I'm not following up. Were it not for a friend wanting to visit me in NYC I wouldn't have started the prep that I have to do for next month (will include finding a new place to live). My gut is not the organ I can go with right now. Which is frustrating as well as becalming.

I really wish there was some good whiskey around. If I manage to deposit my tax refund check (not a done deal by a long shot) I may spend a chunk on a bottle of Knappogue or Tullamore Dew or some other sort that I find.

My flight out is in less than three weeks. I have to decide if I'm going to be on that plane and then, whether or not I am, what happens after. I desperately want to stay in NEw York, but for that I need a job. So I continue to chase my tail.

The stress and numbness is killing any creative instinct. Also, I finally saw an ophthalmologist. In the last three months my eyesight went from 20/25 to 20/30. And that's after having been 20/20 for 30 years. Now I'm on a drop that dilates one eye while the other stays normal, and I don't know how long this will last. It's frustrating as hell. The instinct, right in the moment, is to curse New York. But then I hear kids playing out on the street, shouting in English, Spanish and Hindi. I recall that a half a mile from here I can get shepherd's pie, sushi, heavily loaded pizzas, tamales con mole, Thai, halal and Americanized Chinese food. Thunderstorms are common. It's fucking awesome here.

i just wish I could enjoy it. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70514#Comment_70514Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:42:07 -0500JSandman7I think I need to drink with different people (I'm the one on the left) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70515#Comment_70515Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:44:38 -0500JamesMooreRight now I'm writing a review of the second Casanova album while listening to Burial.

Later I'm either going out with a friend or watching The Seven Samurai for the first time. Either way a good night.I'm also reading news from the Nerd Prom and finding little of interests. I still wish I was in SD though, not just for the con but to live.

In a year? I'd like to be out of Ohio, preferably in San Diego but really any other decent city. I want to have finished my first novel, and to have reclaimed some of the spark I've lodt from the day to day grind of life in the Real World. I was kind of awesome once and I will make myself so once again. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70516#Comment_70516Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:45:09 -0500oldhatUgh...the boyfriend wanted to go for a walk. Four and a half hours later I went home and he decided to walk to his house on the other side of the city. My legs are killing me.

AND I got my eyebrows threaded today. It felt like some horrible kind of torture. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70517#Comment_70517Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:47:59 -0500krushdbug
I think I need to drink with different people (I'm the one on the left)

No way. From the looks of that picture, you have already found the very best people to get drunk with. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70518#Comment_70518Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:52:56 -0500tim12sWaiting on the missus to get up off her arse to go cycling in Golden Gate Park before they open the roads at 6pm. I doubt we'll cycle today. There's only an hour left.

Watching a rip of The Mighty Boosh Live at the Brixton Academy. (NOT the fucking Carling Academy. It's not IN Carling.) "That's S-T-U-M-P Stump Fucking!"

Pencilling a story about the Chartists Rally in Kennington Park. SO much research done, SO many grainy, black and white photos from 1848.

At least drawing horses is easy. I used to draw horses at Belfairs Park when I was little. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70519#Comment_70519Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:53:52 -0500VOh! A picture. I forgot a picture.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70521#Comment_70521Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:56:31 -0500helloMullertell me what you want to be doing, or where you want to be, this time next year.I'd like to have made some headway in comics/graphic novels (as in: finally find the proper time to work on something).

Or just vent, scream, show people your arse or talk dirty to me, it's Saturday night, do what you like...I REALLY REALLY LIKED THE DARK KNIGHT!(Yeah, Ledger is indeed good in it... Nice to see that for once, the hype is somewhat grounded in reality) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70522#Comment_70522Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:59:36 -0500chucksaxMy 11-month old has kidney cancer. All prognosis are good, but it still sucks ass.

Good thing he's cute. Studies have shown that cute kids get better care than ugly ones. When my baby enters the hospital outpatient center, the nurses come running to him like he's a lit crack pipe in the projects.

He'll be in chemo for 21 more weeks - Thursday was week three. Argh. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70528#Comment_70528Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:20:17 -0500Danielle Ni DhigheI finally got a new tech support job, which is a good thing, but while I was at work on Thursday, my apartment was burglarized. They stole a DVD player and most of my DVDs, including my entire Doctor Who collection that I'd been building for years and some rare foreign DVDs. They also stole a digital voice recorder and some valuable jewelry.

There's probably few worse feelings than coming home from a hard day's work to discover that someone burglarized your apartment. It's such a sense of violation, and you wish you could do something violent to the criminals who victimized you. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70530#Comment_70530Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:23:40 -0500StefanJ
Galactic Civilizations II.

I should be writing.

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@checksax: Hang in there. Not there's ever a good time for cancer, but little kids seem to bounce back from this kind of thing better than adults.

BrianMowrey: Ballard or Aldiss or someone came up with the label "slipstream" for fiction that isn't ray gun and rocket stuff but is sure as hell science fiction because it has the attitude.

It isn't as well recognized, but there's stuff about space ships and genetically engineered things and computers that isn't science fiction. It's usually pretty tedious stuff. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70531#Comment_70531Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:25:59 -0500Jake Montefu
After waking around nine a.m. I had an appointment with a woman at a coffee shop in town.I was meeting her there to deliver six prints she purchased from me!It's not like I sell a bunch of prints. Obviously I was quite happy to actually be getting paid for my personal work, which was an almost entirely new sensation for me.It's hard to make a living if you want to do it through art.Here's the product, they were all printed on 11x14 paper with a cool, slight metallic finish:

As usual all comments, positive or negative are welcomed. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70534#Comment_70534
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70534#Comment_70534Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:34:25 -0500MasonBeen talking to a lot of editors lately at cons. They seem nice enough and then I send them my stuff via email and all they can do is criticize the art. I try to explain that I'm the writer, and that I'd really like it if they read the scripts to the art that they see... And then they email me back as if I'm the artist again. I'm a positive guy, but this is no world for a writer who can't draw. Unless your name is Warren Ellis I guess...

I helped my girlfriend out at work today. Got back and noticed a stain that looks (but isn't) semen on my shirt. I wonder what her coworkers think of me now. They probably say, "That Mason, he's a guy who gets things done..." Pause, "All over his shirt..." or something lame like that.

http://www.geekocracy.org/comix/

What follows is hopefully a picture of me looking like a douche bag... I can never seem to post pictures right anywhere... It's all the crack.

This week in Boston has seen some truly wicked stormage (spending my week's allottment of destroying English). Beautiful thunderheads have come rolling across the city, scattering tree limbs and tossing the homeless every which way.

@Danielle Ni Dhihe: Sorry to hear about your place getting burgled. Thankfully no one was hurt. Chances are slim they'll catch the asshats, but karma's got a much better prosecution rate. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70542#Comment_70542
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70542#Comment_70542Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:45:26 -0500Trotskyand of course I have no idea how to ride it properly. am looking forward to hours of humiliation trying to figure the damn thing out.guy at the shop staired in disbeleif as I barley made it around the parking lot, then suggested training wheels.

I said, "no thank you, if i don't know how to do it by now, then i deserve to fall"

Where in the world did my parents go wrong with me? I really wonder sometimes. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70543#Comment_70543
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70543#Comment_70543Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:45:41 -0500alphatrope
SaNtaSataNThere was a Satan Claus when I signed my deal with the devil.

I understands the difference between vivid and lucid. Youth is not truth when age is all the rage. Show no disdain for the dull and plain, when it's within your powers to put the range in strange. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70544#Comment_70544
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70544#Comment_70544Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:47:01 -0500krushdbugSaturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70545#Comment_70545
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70545#Comment_70545Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:49:07 -0500keighter
Tonight is a kegger and my aunt's 30 year high school reunion, for which she and her husband are in town.

and the family is back... fuck. time to be social and lie about my big plans for my life... ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70546#Comment_70546
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70546#Comment_70546Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:50:43 -0500MasonSaturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70547#Comment_70547
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70547#Comment_70547Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:51:59 -0500krushdbugSaturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70548#Comment_70548
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70548#Comment_70548Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:55:21 -0500MasonSaturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70549#Comment_70549
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70549#Comment_70549Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:00:00 -0500CamyLunaIt's a desire that I've had for the past 5 years, and it's not right to let a desire fester for so long. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70550#Comment_70550
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70550#Comment_70550Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:04:35 -0500burntcopperTomorrow i have to make a sundress or two and then adjust a leather skirt.

The day after that? Going to see Zorro the musical. Because I need mad swashbuckling in my life. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70551#Comment_70551
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70551#Comment_70551Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:04:51 -0500KibblesmithFull of coffee, sushi, optimism. Bruce Lee tonight at my place, byob.

If you have trouble finding me, I was this one:

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Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70552#Comment_70552
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70552#Comment_70552Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:05:59 -0500krushdbugSaturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70553#Comment_70553
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70553#Comment_70553Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:06:56 -0500MasonSaturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70554#Comment_70554
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70554#Comment_70554Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:07:13 -0500AtomicSlothThere are things in the room that want my blood. They move through dimensions, I can only catch them in the corner of my eye. I have two huge bites already. I never saw a mosquito til I visited the fucking midlands.

I has a college. In nottinghams. All I need now is a flat. Also thinking about getting a scooter. I can't actually ride a bike but I do have the goggles...I went out tonight, had a meal, drank a respectable ammount of alcohol, but it's now 2am, my party are all asleep, Im pretty sober and incredibly untired. Do I start drinking again? ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70555#Comment_70555
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70555#Comment_70555Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:08:52 -0500cjstevens
I've started reading 52. Never been a fan of DC Universe (cept Batman and a few others) but it is actually a whole lotta fun. London is being crushed by thick humidity and making me extra lethargic..I think a storm is coming.Why So Serious? ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70556#Comment_70556
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70556#Comment_70556Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:12:25 -0500krushdbugSaturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70561#Comment_70561
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70561#Comment_70561Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:25:10 -0500arcaner/me hops on his hobby horse

My biggest pet peeve is lazy speculative fiction writers. Biggest sin in this area is mono-climate planets. "We're going to crash into the jungle planet of Jureika!" No, you're not. And it would just take changing a few words and things would be fine. "We're going to crash into the jungles of Jureika!" Problem solved.

Recently another line made me want to start stabbing. "The planet didn't have any animals, but there were plenty of fruit trees." Do you see what's wrong there? AURGH.

Since I don't have an image of my face out on the intrawebz here's my sygil. Plz do not steal. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70562#Comment_70562
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70562#Comment_70562Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:25:58 -0500mybrainhurtsThis time next year I hope to have finished writing a book, be in a shitty punk band, be in America and have a girlfriend, I'd settle for one of those four.

This week I've been watching Freaks & Geeks which is great but sometimes is physically painful to watch as I'm not far enough removed from the unpleasantness and awkwardness that was school to laugh at it just yet.

It's too hot right now. I'm not built for the heat, yesterday I went down to London to see the World/Inferno Friendship Society (amazing cabaret-punk band) and I walked from Marble Arch to Camden. The cold pint I had when I got there was better than anything else that's going on in my life right now. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70564#Comment_70564
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70564#Comment_70564Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:29:00 -0500PolineesSaturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70565#Comment_70565
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70565#Comment_70565Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:29:59 -0500mkhallOther than that, I'm open to suggestions. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70568#Comment_70568
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70568#Comment_70568Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:36:25 -0500LauraI've been at my new job for about 3 months now. I feel like it's time that I should quit using that as an excuse to not write anything. Yeah, the hours are a little crazy, but it's really not that hard to find half an hour to write here and there. Hell, I could be doing it now instead of being here. But here I am. Hello, world. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70569#Comment_70569
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70569#Comment_70569Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:47:29 -0500trini_naenaeAs for right now - I had a decently good creative week. I made myself a sketchbook and I've already filled 20 pages of it with unimportant scribbles and whatnot. I'm going to be working this Monday, which is good as I need more hours anyhow. I'm probably going to get my hair trimmed/cut in the near future and I'm considering getting bangs.

Damn. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70572#Comment_70572
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70572#Comment_70572Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:08:05 -0500DavidBrownI would also like to see Americans wake up a bit by next year (although I fear it may be too late by then). At this rate, nearly all of our 'rights' will have vanished by next year at this time! But I really doubt my countrymen are actually capable of this feat.

Wow, I guess that is sort of a rant and a 'next year at this time...' thing. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70573#Comment_70573
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70573#Comment_70573Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:08:51 -0500outlawpoet
Sometimes I wish my base level wasn't rational and calm. 'Cause this week needed to be beat to death with a baseball bat. But I'm already feeling better, so the moment had passed.

I have that exact feeling all the time. Like, here's a perfect moment for me to lose my shit, but I'm already thinking about it coldly and rationally, so I can't very well go back and make my first reaction to get spectacularly angry. It would be lying, it would be emotional self-deception, and I couldn't do it without being self-conscious anyway. But I totally would have been in the right if I had. But here I am, dealing with it like I'm a politeness zombie. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70574#Comment_70574
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70574#Comment_70574Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:21:05 -0500alphatropeSaturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70576#Comment_70576
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70576#Comment_70576Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:33:37 -0500alphatropeI hope that made no sense as it would be far more interesting than what I meant to say. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70577#Comment_70577
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70577#Comment_70577Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:34:37 -0500notsurewhoI don't believe in waxing, so you'd rather not see it... I'm surounded by people getting married or having babies... 25 feels middle aged.....and if I could talk dirty I doubt I'd be single...

My right hand aches and doesn't work right , so I'm typing mostly left handed. Trying to use my notebook computer wrong-handed is difficult and cumbersome. It makes the meager living I make out of doing design work from home rather impossible to handle for the time being.

My right foot feels similar to the hand, but it doesn't have to grab or be particularly dextrous, so it doesn't suffer the brunt of my frustration and tears. I walk a little funny, but I already did that before from the left ankle being perpetually fucked, so it doesn't so much matter.

I've only been able to sleep for two hours this morning, so I can't focus to read pages of text for long periods because my eyes will cross and my vision will go double and it will end too soon. Drawing is slightly less strain on the eyes, but there's that right hand problem... Typing is a painful frustration, so computer can't whittle away my time. Can't go for a long walk, because my right foot aches, and it's hot out, which makes everything (numbness, weakness, stabby pains) worse.

this time next year i don't want to be: having such a hard time finding writers who want to submit articles frequently, having such a hard time writing my own articles (gah! editor stop yelling at me i'll submit when it's damn well good enough to submit and not a moment before), putting off necessary renovations, quite so stupid about things i do in fact know, poor, dirty, inebriated, or achey, trying desperately to find a way to crack Max/MSP 5.

i do want to be: rich as a thief, pretty as a hooker, at least slightly less in debt (or with the prospects to see myself getting out of debt), the free time and motivation to make that fun to-do list happen, and maybe all the words to The Philadelphia Story memorized, instead of only half-memorized. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70589#Comment_70589
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70589#Comment_70589Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:28:13 -0500IsenMike
really hit the town tonight.

Nope. Had to leave our booth an hour early because I felt like crap. Picked up a thermometer on the way back to the hotel. I have a 101.7 degree fever. Fucking hell.

I guess next year I'd like to be back at San Diego and NOT FUCKING SICK. (Also maybe working a different booth, having moved on to a better position at another company?)

If it's such a sacrifice, go explore the amazing world of telemarketing. I don't need to know that your are better then the rest of humanity because you spent your weekend doing comics. If you weren't doing them, chances are you would be doing nothing at all. But that is not the point.

Listen, Math is my kryptonite. I can't understand it and fuck it, I don't work with it anyway. So, accounting is not one of my carrer choices. And I think accounters do a terribly difficult job. Impossible for me to do in a million years. The same thing with engineers, boat pilots and a million other jobs. But I don't see an accounter saying "oh, my job is so hard! Yes, I can add and multiply, but my job is a soul killing job and I do it so you can deliver your tax papers on time." What I do is translate ideas and concepts into images and I can create a story that starts with an image. That's what I do. And fuck all the difficults of my job. I do what I do and that's it. If it doesn't fulfill me, I change, as I did before, and go do something else. Answer a phone all day long, perhaps. If it's so hard and you do it anyway, you're either a masoquist or stupid. Possible both.

Go do your job and stop complaing. You're not the last good samaritan on Earth because you spent hours drawing comics. You were doing your job. The job you choose to do in the first place. So, please, you can stop the complaing now. If nothing else, because you have an Eisner award to make me shut the fuck up. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70593#Comment_70593
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70593#Comment_70593Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:32:58 -0500Val A Lindsay IISo here's something sickening for everyone else...

not an arse, but whatever. long work week, and i'm proud of it: ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70599#Comment_70599
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70599#Comment_70599Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:01:47 -0500SpiraltwistI think the camera got scared, which is why it's blurry. The smile has the "power".

Edited to fix picture. And nicely done, Sara. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70600#Comment_70600
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70600#Comment_70600Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:12:52 -0500cavalaxisOnly one thing to think about. When the day comes and you find yourself on the business end of grief? Please don't be surprised when people treat you like a plague victim. It's only what you would have done.

(WE~ Thanks for letting me get this off my chest. ~L.) ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70601#Comment_70601
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70601#Comment_70601Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:17:17 -0500EridanTonight I've already talked to a guy who wanted to be put under orders to wear panties to church tomorrow morning, under his suit, a father who is desperately in lust with his eldest daughter's dorm-mate, and a guy who wanted tips on how to better perform cunnilingus on his wife. But at 2.99 a minute, it's the best money I can make and still be a full-time mom. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70603#Comment_70603
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70603#Comment_70603Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:28:33 -0500smibbo@ Eridan: lots of men lie about their sexual relationship with their wives. It allows them to pretend that it's "okay" to get off on a stranger doing stuff. I salute you for doing that job though, being a full-time mom isn't easy and it sure ain't cheap. So you go girl.

Me? Next year this time I expect to be engaged in self-employment. Sewing luxury cloth diapers. Hopefully I will then have enough time/money to be able to have babysitting so that I can spend at least one hour every day finishing up ONE writing project of the hundreds that went into hibernation when I moved here: illness, hospitalization, trauma, hospitalization again, pregnancy, hospitalization again, oh gawd its been one thing after another for TWO YEARS but seems like it's finally slowing down. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70605#Comment_70605
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70605#Comment_70605Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:37:58 -0500brittanica
it would also be boring, and most of the people i invite would most likely not show up.that, and i don't think i could have it in a church. makes me uncomfortable.saw the dark knight for the second time afterward. made me feel better.

where do i want to be this time next year?

i want to be in a studio, using my fucking $2500 community college education. maybe not in nashville, but i want to record people. in class, nobody else would volunteer to sit behind the mixing console when we had people in our little studio. god, i've never felt more important than when i got to talk to these musicians in the booth. i felt like i was helping create something special.i miss it. sure, i mix my boyfriend's ep that he may never finish. not the same. i need that feeling again. i don't feel like much of a person without it. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70608#Comment_70608
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70608#Comment_70608Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:42:35 -0500GillianQuestion: A man offered me a ride home this afternoon(while I was walking home from the place I am renting-to-own my laptop from), while driving me home he asked what I was doing later in the evening(I answered truthfully and said I would be sleeping) and he said "Bye babe" when I got out of his car. So was he trying to ask me out? And did I pass as a woman without knowing it?

Note: My appearance seems to be well into the androgynous zone. In the past two days I've been ma'amed twice (and they didn't correct themselves) and looked at funny several times. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70609#Comment_70609
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70609#Comment_70609Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:45:16 -0500chris g
Got NIN - The Slip in cd/dvd form this week. Guhhhhh, it fucking infuses me with energy, GOD DAMN!Oh, and payday is tomorrow. Yay, i guess. What's the point if I ain't got drinking pals.I'm fully recovered from opening night of TDK, time for round 2 soon!@James Moore - she works in my favorite bookstore, hope I don't fuck this up or I won't ever be able to go back! HAHA!@Sara 013 - Amazing work!@Spiraltwist - That is so awesome. I don't know how I would act if i met cranky sea captain, but I would probly breakdown. but he's got a no-crying policy...followed by the eels@Mason - nice shorts ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70610#Comment_70610
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70610#Comment_70610Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:56:42 -0500gdwesselOn the other hand, a friend of mine brought me a bag of Oreos at work. For no discernable good reason. And that's awesome.

Have to work again tomorrow, of course, but maybe I can knock out a flashfic before then. Maybe not. Feeling pretty creative the last week. Maybe because I've finally got an actionable plan in place to get myself NOTICED HA HA HA HA ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70611#Comment_70611
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70611#Comment_70611Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:00:06 -0500mercurialblondeI have the crazy look in my eye now. People can see it. They can feel it. I won't be denied for anything. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70614#Comment_70614
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70614#Comment_70614Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:06:13 -0500buzzorhowl
here. You guys came up with different ones, but yours will work too, I'd assume. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70615#Comment_70615
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70615#Comment_70615Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:07:38 -0500Lani

Earlier this week, I saw pictures, video, and listened to a short bit of audio of a woman who was killed on April 16th, 2007 in the shooting at Virginia Tech. She was my boyfriend's sometime girlfriend at the time - I say sometime because they had dated, broken up, and then were in the process of getting back together when she was killed. He was devastated to hear that she was sitting in that German class, as well as to hear that several of his other friends and acquaintances were among the 32 killed that day.

Since I met and started dating him 4 months ago, I've heard a lot about these people and seen some of their pictures. I feel like I almost know this girl because of everything that I have heard. I'll only ever know her in grand strokes, and know none of the small quirky details that really make a person. Everything that I have heard, though, paints an image of a really beautiful and kind soul. Many of them were, actually. As my boyfriend pointed out, often when a person's life is taken, there is much hyperbole in remembrance - but with many of the victims of that shooting, it's no hyperbole. They were truly wonderful people.

It's gotten me thinking about how I would want to be remembered if my life were suddenly cut short, what actions would really reflect my values and ideals in a concrete way...what kind of a person do I want to be. It's easy for inertia to take over and to keep putting off those great plans you have for yourself, and inertia took hold of my life for several years after I graduated with my bachelor's degree. But I started fighting it last year when I went back to school to get a master's degree. I was floundering a bit, though, on what to do afterwards - but I've finally figured it out.

And so in a year's time, I plan to be graduated with my master's degree in Health Psychology and a new member of the Peace Corps preparing to go to Africa, on my way to start a career in Global Health issues. I may not be able to save the world, but I can make a real difference for people in need. I'm lucky to have been born in a rich country and a good family, but it was simply luck. I want to help the people who weren't so lucky in where they were born. That's at least my dream, and certainly how I'd like to be remembered.(By the way, if I can make a request, you guys should go read about the victims of the shooting on VT's memorial page. So many of them were truly truly wonderful people.) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70616#Comment_70616Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:12:02 -0500Sara 013
tedcroland "Have you ever thought about taking pictures in progress?"

Nnnnnah. Pictures in-progress would be incredibly uninteresting, really.(Step 1: watch, not working. Step 2: watch, never going to work again.)

Question: A man offered me a ride home this afternoon(while I was walking home from the place I am renting-to-own my laptop from), while driving me home he asked what I was doing later in the evening(I answered truthfully and said I would be sleeping) and he said "Bye babe" when I got out of his car. So was he trying to ask me out? And did I pass as a woman without knowing it?

I don't know if he was trying to ask you out or if he was just interested but unwilling to make himself vulnerable by coming out and saying what he had in mind, but I think he definitely was trying to coax you into hanging out later. Whether you passed is another question entirely, though--who knows if he clocked you and just didn't care? Either way, though, I'd say he was definitely interested. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70620#Comment_70620
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70620#Comment_70620Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:23:31 -0500Robson10:20pm here in San Francisco - had one of my laziest-boy-in-town Saturdays since I've been sleepless throughout the week. Spent much of the day in bed, dozing and reading comics. Went out to eat, and am now watching David Hasselhoff and some no-name soldiers hunting a giant snake on the SciFi channel.

Work on the new play, MOMMY, continues. It looks like I can open it on Valentines Day weekend, which pleases me.

My week was actually rather uneventful. Caught up on a couple of hobby things, ditched Microsoft Office for OpenOffice, installed Opera 9.5 on my phone, and have been slowly considering Linux. Adobe and Protools are the things keeping me from it right now. And various driver things. Today I went to a minor league baseball game to watch the hometown team get fucked up the asses by the visiting team. The Joliet Jackhammers. How appropriate. Next week will actually determine what happens to where I'll be next year. Wife's got an interview with Sweetwater Sound. All goes well, we'll be moving to Fort Wayne, Indiana. Which is less jarring than a move to California, I bet.

So there. No ranting this week. I've saved that for other threads. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70629#Comment_70629
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70629#Comment_70629Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:42:30 -0500Gekko
I had an epiphany a fortnight ago. I was back in Ireland 20 years after living there. Strolling around places I used to be so fond of (Sandycove, the Gravediggers...) and I came to the conclusion that growing old is all right, growing old is not a waste of time, growing old is a good craic as long as you've been true to yourself (and you know deep inside if you've been true or not, you can't just decide you've been so)Next year same time? I'll be in a plane, learning a few words of the natives I'll be visiting. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70632#Comment_70632
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70632#Comment_70632Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:48:39 -0500mercurialblonde

Question: A man offered me a ride home this afternoon(while I was walking home from the place I am renting-to-own my laptop from), while driving me home he asked what I was doing later in the evening(I answered truthfully and said I would be sleeping) and he said "Bye babe" when I got out of his car. So was he trying to ask me out? And did I pass as a woman without knowing it?

Who really knows? I'd try not to get too caught up in the pronoun game as a gauge for anything. There's so many things that could happen, it will make you crazy if you judge your progress on that. At the end of the day it's about how you feel and your own confidence.

I'm in a situation where I'm working at a job I used to work before I transitioned, and the manager who never knew me in my previous gender, decided to make it really weird and awkward, and inform all of the new staff of my previous gender situation, and make it this big tadoo(I almost didn't get hired because of it, and was told this outright(which is legal for them to do in this state)). It is the first job I've ever had where the word transgender ever has come up. And the first time people have started stumbling around on pronouns. I could take that and make it this negative thing, but I'm secure enough in who I am that I just kind of laugh at the silliness of it. It's not a big deal. The customers don't know and don't care, the only reason the staff know or care is because they are bored and have been made to care. Things are already settling down though as people actually get to meet me as opposed to theorize about me. Just remember, you're not a pronoun.

At the end of the day, you are who you are, and little pronouns slips or non-slips by strangers really don't have much bearing on it. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70633#Comment_70633
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70633#Comment_70633Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:49:01 -0500Dragone
Drinking to just be able to kill the rage from the job that is killing my social life.Drinking makes me happy.Working on a story about my job that kills the soul.In a years time I fucking hope that I finish my ``work story`` and I`m not at my shity job and I`m participating more in the wonderful board. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70634#Comment_70634
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70634#Comment_70634Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:50:47 -0500Rootfireember
tell me what you want to be doing, or where you want to be, this time next year. Or just vent, scream, show people your arse or talk dirty to me, it's Saturday night, do what you like...

Last night it rained like hell, thundered like the voice of an Angry God that was ready to smite some unbelievers...tonight, it's just a quiet sprinkling. This time, next year... I want to have created something. Not a painting here or there when I find a few hours to myself, or the occasional sketch. I want to do something that will make people stop and stare. Not for a 6-second burst, but for LONGER. I want to write something worth while, something that makes people stop thinking about their work day, sucks'em in and makes them ache when it's over because, damn, it's fuckin' over and they have to WAIT until I write something again for more...

The problem isn't a lack of ability. I damn well know I can do these things, to some degree or other. It's finding time. I have so many ideas... but enough whinging- something will happen, or it won't, and however way it'll go, I'll have no one to blame but myself. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70637#Comment_70637
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70637#Comment_70637Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:10:34 -0500Gillian

At the end of the day, you are who you are, and little pronouns slips or non-slips by strangers really don't have much bearing on it.

Tix for El Vez this Wednesday. My birthday treat! ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70644#Comment_70644
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70644#Comment_70644Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:29:28 -0500Jake MontefuAwesome, totally cool watch mutation and photo! ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70645#Comment_70645
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70645#Comment_70645Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:47:29 -0500stonedephI wish... the second law of thermodynamics... was a law I could break.... I take solace though.... in knowing.. that there is no wrong for which I can commit... just harms. that I try very.. hard... to avoid.......... ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70646#Comment_70646
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70646#Comment_70646Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:53:38 -0500allanaSaturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70647#Comment_70647
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70647#Comment_70647Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:25 -0500Gekko
Well isn't that the future of our species anyway, once the sexist bits and habits will have ceased to comfort some of us, once being a man or a woman will not interfere on our personnal, social and working life. Once being a woman won't mean being paid less for the same job. Once being a man won't mean testosterone shite. Once manhood and womanhood won't mean pizza, gross jokes and male bonding vs small talk, windowshopping and bitching. I'm talking about a very far future I'm afraid.Anyway, Gilian, whatever that guy meant, he was trying to be nice with you.

Oh, that, and I've started to learn Irish. Stop the press. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70648#Comment_70648
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70648#Comment_70648Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:14:45 -0500WaxPoeticthe leaves on one of the trees outside cast a shadow on the door to the strange garage in the backyard that looks like Bast.

i'm most of the way through a bottle of cheap chenin blanc and sharing space with a cat. next year i fully anticipate a variation on the same theme.

one of my best friends is going to Poland with her husband. i will be in Tuscon when they get back. i am nervous about being away from them for four weeks, and aware that it will pass. i will miss her. my mother's MS is making her speech more slurred. there is nothing in the world that would make it okay with her if i put anything off on her account, but i'm getting scared and want to be near her.

now that i've surprised myself, i'm gonna go finish that bottle and sleep.

good days, whitechapel... ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70650#Comment_70650
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70650#Comment_70650Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:24:08 -0500kozmundOur last night there, a good friend and I decided to stay up late, turn off the generator, consume some of the leftovers and sit outside. To the north, a thunder storm was rolling across the horizon. Directly above, the sky was clear with no light pollution at all. We're talking about something like not a single light in a 30 mile radius. We sat out, smoking someone else's Cuban Cohibas, drinking someone else's aged single malt, shooting the shit, and enjoying the show. At some point, my friend mentioned that seeing so many stars so clearly made him wish more than ever that he had a space ship.

About 15 minutes later, while he was peeing in the bushes, I hollered to him. He came back and asked what I was going on about. I pointed out to him that the brightest object in the sky was currently working its way from horizon to horizon. A long pause. Finally, when it started getting low, he asked, awed and confused, "What the hell is that?"

I had the honor of telling him that it was The International Space Station. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70652#Comment_70652
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70652#Comment_70652Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:28:08 -0500JP Valdecantos
I used to be one of those guys who thought that meeting people thru the internet was for losers, oddly, me not being a sports guy or some shit like that! I've always been a rather shy guy, but nevertheless prefered direct human contact.And for a month, I've been having this kind of "relationship" with this incredible woman, via Messenger, who actually lives like 2000 miles away from me!! And now I want by all means to kill myself! I mean, I, myself, want to catch this skinny guy and punch him to unconciousness!! This skinny guy who is ME!!! How ridiculous this situation can be??! How absurd???But then again, I've been watching and enjoying this interactive community, like many others, and, well, I'm actually clueless!

So, fuck me sideways!

Love you all!!!!!!!! ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70654#Comment_70654
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70654#Comment_70654Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:40:49 -0500willreavesVent: I'm piss arse drunk at the moment, the result of some finely distilled spirits and a whole load of low-quality swill. The girl I've pined after (fruitlessly) for years is passed out in my living room, underneath a blanket and with pillow. We had a birthday part for my roommate's fiance tonight, which was a rousing success. It's only in these hours when there's no one else in the loft that I curse myself and spit spiteful words at what might have been.

Otherwise, at the moment I'm on a truce with the universe. I can take or leave things as they stand. Give me something to love or something to hate; I cannot stand this equilibrium. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70655#Comment_70655
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70655#Comment_70655Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:42:05 -0500Gillian

Anyway, Gilian, whatever that guy meant, he was trying to be nice with you.

He was nice and I have no bad feelings against him. It's just I wish I knew what was going on from his point of view. Did he 'clock' me? Or not? Was he asking about later for a reason? Or was he just talking? None of this really matters but part of me can't help but wonder. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70656#Comment_70656
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70656#Comment_70656Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:54:55 -0500Skeevins

There's a lot of things about that character that I just don't get. He was originally a regular guy whose axe got cursed by the Wicked Witch of the East and accidentally chopped off all of his body parts in turn, thereby creating the need for an obscene amount of tin prosthetics. So basically, he's this lumbering parody of humanity, forced to live as an immortal golem the rest of his days...and yet, when given the opportunity to ask the most powerful person in the land for a single favor, he asks for a heart. At no point does he stop to think "Hey, maybe it would be a good idea if I asked to not be tin anymore. Because there are a good many organs that will improve my odds at a relationship in addition to a heart. And being human again will give me access to the full catalogue." Nope, all he wants is a heart. To me, even the sweet embrace of death would seem like a better plan. What's he going to do if he meets a nice lady? There's only so much metal fingers can do with out rusting.

Which brings me to point #2: tin doesn't rust. So either he has iron joints, or that fucker is one hell of a lubrication freak. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70660#Comment_70660
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70660#Comment_70660Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:51:55 -0500whiskeyduckWhether or not he "clocked" you, he obviously found you attractive enough to make a clumsy pass at you. Are you worried that he might have been a 'chaser? ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70664#Comment_70664
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70664#Comment_70664Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:40:56 -0500Don KellyHaven't done a "where will I be in a year" estimation in a while. As I'm thinking about it I'll give you something to hold me to. In a year I will stop bartending. I'll be 38 and that seems like a fine time to get out. Of course, so did 35 and 36. Never really thought about it here at the dawn of 37.

I have no screams. A mouth, but no screams. I've implemented lots of changes over the last few weeks, so there's been no time for maddening things. A contentedness helps to leaden my eyelids. Wanted to end on some profound thought about coworkers, small, mutual affects, and leaving a mark, but can't muster it at 20 to 4. Sorry to leave everyone drooling for my wisdom. Maybe after a nap.

Best regards. ]]>
Saturday Night Open Mic (26 Jul 08)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70683#Comment_70683
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=3106&Focus=70683#Comment_70683Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:40:51 -0500leech
What is wrong with these scum fucks? is it so hard to just come up and say "hey, what you drawing?" or what ever, sure I'll still think you're a douche for interupting, but slightly less of one that needs to throw a ball at someone to start a conversation...people don't apreciate it, I know I've tried it.....Ok maybe it wasn't exactly in a park and instead of a ball it was a glass bottle....and I was heroically drunk, but the concept is similar.

One year from now? I'll probably be preparing for the exhibition at the end of tafe(If I don't fail this year), hopefully I'll be better skilled, a little more confident and much less paranoid. ]]>